Table Of ContentSchmidt, Muhammad Wolfgang G. A.: Prepare Yourself for the Chinese Language
Proficiency Exam (HSK). Intermediate Chinese Language Difficulty Levels. Volume II:
HSK Levels 3 and 4, Hamburg, disserta Verlag, 2019
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List of Contents
IntroductoryNotes v
Intermediate Levels (HSK Level 3 & 4 ) 1 - 242
HSK Level 3 3 - 101
ChineseCharacters 5-52
HSKLevel3 CharaterList 7-8
ChineseCharacterswithHanyuPinyinTranscriptionand
EnglishMeaningDefinitions 9 - 24
HSKLevel3 Chinese CharacterStrokeOrder 25-52
WordsToKnow 53- 71
A-B 55 M 64
C 56 N - P 65
D 57 Q- R 66
E 58 S 67
F 59 T - W 68
G 60 X 69
H 61 Y 70
J 62 Z 71
K- L 63
GrammarPoints 77- 102
HSKLevel3 75
Overview 76
WordsandPhrases 77-87
Sentences 88-91
Compements 92-93
ComplexSentences 94-96
FixedStructures 97-98
SuggestedFurtherReading 99
AbbreviationsUsedintheSyntaxTreeGraphVisualisations 100
References 101
HSK Level 4 103 - 242
ChineseCharacters 105-182
HSKLevel4CharacterLists 107-111
Part4A 107 -
Part4B 109 - 110
Part4C 111
HSK Exam Level 4 Chinese Characters with Latin Hanyu Transcription and English
MeaningDefinitions 113- 136
Part4A 113- 122
Part4B 123- 131
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Part 4C 132 - 136
HSK Level 4 - Chinese Character Stroke Order 137 - 182
Part 4A 137 - 154
Part 4B 155 - 172
Part 4C 173 - 182
Words To Know 183 - 209
A - B 185 M - N 198
C 186 O - P 199
D 187 Q 200
E 189 R - S 201
F 190 T 203
G 191 W 204
H 192 X 205
J 193 Y 206
K 195 Z 207
L 196
Grammar Points 211 - 241
HSK Level 4 213
Overview 214
Words and Phrases 215 - 230
Sentences 231 - 231
Complements 232 - 236
Fixed Structures 237 - 238
Suggested Furthér Reading 239
Abbreviation Used in the Syntax Tree Graph Visualisations 240
References 241
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While preparing for the Chinese Language Proficiency Exam (CLPE, [(cid:43)(cid:54)(cid:46)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:8825)(cid:16925)(cid:8804)(cid:5283)
(cid:13875)(cid:16901) Hàny(cid:1283) Shu(cid:1279)píng K(cid:1277)oshì(cid:64)), administered by the Hanban in the People’s Republic of
China, you will face the issue of mastering the foreign languge (here: Chinese) via the
four communicative language skills of speaking, writing, listening and reading com-
prehension. ´You won’t be able to achieve any level of mastering such languge skills
without a sound knowledge of its “material” like the knowlege of Chinese characters,
their pronunciation, a certain amount of vocabulary acquired and following an essen-
tial set of grammatical rules. This book in your hands will cover all the necssary mate-
rial that is needed as a pre-requisite for masterin the four communicative languages
skills. In other words, you will find here all the essential material covering Chinese
characters, vocabulary and Grammar Points enabling you to communicate effectively
and efficiently by making use of the four communicative language skills up to a level
that is relevant for your appropriate level of chosen from among the six difficulty le-
vels of the CLPE (HSK).
Fig. 1 demonstrates this inter-relationship between these four communicative lan-
guage skills and the basic “material” underlying them:
Figure 1
The system of the six difficulty levels of the CLPE (HSK) itself is organised and de-
fined in terms of the three basic difficulty levels Elementary, Intemediate and Advanced.
These three basic difficulty levels again are sub-divided into respective “sub-levels”
like Elementary 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, and Advanced 1 and 2. “1” and “2” gener-
ally stand here for the sub-levels of “Lower” and “Upper” with respect to the three ba-
sic language difficulty levels Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced, respectively.
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Hene, we have a differentiation system of Lower and Upper Elementary, Intermediate
and Advanced language difficulty levels in foreign language learning and teaching,
now also to be applied to CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
Fig. 2 indicates these languages difficuilty levels and relates them to the difficulty le-
vels of the CLPE (HSK) and the Common European Framework of Reference for Lan-
guages (CEFR(cid:12)(cid:3)in the following way:
Figure 2
Based on this division, we have divided and organised the material of Chinese charac-
ters, vocabulary and Grammar Points to be mstered for each of the six language diffi-
culty levels of the CLPE into three volumes, each of them covering the language mate-
rial for two language difficulty levels of the CLPE:
(cid:547) Volume I covers the HSK Levels 1 and 2 and is thus called the Elementary HSK Le-
vel.
(cid:547) Volume II covers the HSK Levels 3 and 4 and is called the Intermediate HSKLevel.
(cid:547) Volume III covers the HSK Levels 5 and 6 and is consequently called the Advanced
HSK Level.
In each of these three volumes and for each of the two HSK language difficulty levels
covered there, the followiung material is presented in depth:
(cid:547) Chinese Characters
(cid:547) Vocabulary
(cid:547) Grammar Points
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We will now deal with these three sections in more detail and explain the organisation
of the material in each of them.
Chinese Characters
Generally, Chinese characters for each HSL Level are presented according to their in-
dividual number of strokes. We hope that this sorting will assist in effectively memor-
ising them for active and passive language use in communication practice. For those
HSK Level units with an inventory of over 250 Chinese unique characters set, the
number of characters were sub-divided into parts such as HSK 4A, HSK 4B, HSK 4C,
etc. HSK distribution of Chinese characters and their sub-divisions according to indi-
vidual stroke number for each HSK difficulty level are shown in Figure 3 below.
Figure 3
Each section on Chinese characters covers the following:
(cid:547) Character Lists for each HSK difficulty level. This listing will help you to see which
characters are included for each respective HSK exam level, and you can test yoursel
at a first glance which of them are already known to you and do not present any pro-
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blems in writing and comprehension. This “pre-selection” then would enable you to
concenrate on those not yet known and to pay special attention to them.
(cid:547) Chinese - English Character Glossaries for each HSK difficulty level again follow the
same principle of order arrangement acording to the individual number of strokes of
these characters liste in the inventory for each HSK level. These glossaries contain in-
formation on pronunciation of characters in Hanyu Pinyin transcription followed by
English Meaning definitions.
(cid:547) Stroke Order of Chinese Characters for each HSK Level allow you to practice the writ-
ing of Chinese characters by drawig along the shaded lines with a thin pencil in the
stroke order section. The lay-out of these worksheets is explained in more detail below
(Figure 4).
Figure 4
Note that for all those sections in the Chinese Character parts of the book, the princi-
ples arrangement of characters is the same in sequence: Sorting is acording to their in-
dividual number of strokes, with those lower in stroke number listed first and fol-
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lowed by those higher in number of their respective individual number of strokes.This
way of sorting is also advantageous if you need to locate a certain character in any of
these sections.
Vocabulary
In this part of the book, you will deal with words instead of characters. This disctinction
is important in terms of Chinese grammar and Linguistic Science of Chinese. Since
Chinese characters carry meaning, they easily may be confused with words from a
Western point of view. In the early days of modern Chinese Linguistics, this distinc-
tion was a matter of debate among scholars and led to the conclusion that the tradi-
tional Western framework of grammar was not applicable here and that a separate
graar framework was needed for the Chinese language beause of its extreme diver-
gence in comparison to the larger family of Indo-European languages.
Word entries in this part of the book are listed alphabetically according to their tran-
scription in Hanyu Pinyin as the following sampe extract from Volume II for HSK Le-
vel 3 indicates (Figure 5).
Figure 5
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The arrangement of data in this part of the book is largely self-explanatory and does
not require any further comments.
Grammar Points
Again, the arrangement of the material in this last part of the book is largely self-ex-
planatory and does not require any further comment. The Overview in this part of the
book lists all the important grammar points required for each HSK exam level (Figure
6 below; sample extract below is taken from the HSK 6 Grammar Point part in Volume
III).
Figure 6
